Christina Pushaw

Early life and education Pushaw was born in Washington, where her father worked as a lawyer at Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle. She spent most of her childhood in Malibu, California During 2012, she volunteered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, where she encountered Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia, during a speech he gave and other appearances over the following year around Simi Valley, California. Saakashvili said that Reagan "defines who we Georgians are." During 2013 and 2014, Pushaw's peers and colleagues said that she said she traveled with Saakashvili and showed pictures she had taken with him telling them she had just been to Batumi. In late 2017, Pushaw organized a pro-Saakashvili rally at the Embassy of Ukraine. In the resume she later provided to Ron DeSantis, she wrote that she worked as his communications and media advisor part-time during December 2017. and joined his staff full-time in 2019. She worked for him until 2020.

Career In June 2022, the Department of Justice reached out to Pushaw and asked her to register as a foreign agent per the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The act requires "foreign agents", defined as individuals or entities engaged in domestic lobbying or advocacy for foreign governments, organizations, or persons ("foreign principals"), to register with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and disclose their relationship, activities, and related financial compensation.

Journalism

Pushaw worked as an freelance journalist and had work published in national conservative outlets like The National Interest and Human Events. In February 2021, Pushaw published an article in Human Events criticizing Rebekah Jones, a Florida Department of Health employee who was fired in May 2020 for insubordination. It was the first national story to point out holes in Jones claims and brought her to the attention of DeSantis' administration. Matt Dixon with Politico noted she had an unorthodox and aggressive style and was hostile to media outlets perceived to be critical of DeSantis.

In August 2021, Pushaw's Twitter account was locked for 12 hours for "harassing behavior".

In November 2021, she claimed that the Republic of Georgia's decision to implement a vaccine passport system might have been influenced by a recent meeting between the country's government and a member of the Rothschild family, despite the fact that the meeting in question had taken place several months before the decision was announced. She later retracted the claim after stating that it had been misinterpreted.

In January 2022, she deleted a social media post after facing backlash.

She posted on social media in support of the Parental Rights in Education Act, calling the "Don't Say Gay" nickname given by its opponents inaccurate: "The bill that liberals inaccurately call 'Don't Say Gay' would be more accurately described as an Anti-Grooming Bill. If you're against the Anti-Grooming Bill, you are probably a groomer or at least you don't denounce the grooming of 4-8 year old children. Silence is complicity. This is how it works, Democrats, and I didn't make the rules." Florida Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith responded, stating it was a bigotted attack against LGBTQ people and calling for her to resign.

In September 2022, Pushaw gave a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, Florida. Ron DeSantis was one of the keynote speakers at the event.